EPA Wants Authority to Regulate Power Plants

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson wants Congress to retain certain authority with EPA to regulate GHGs even after passage of the climate change bill, Dow Jones Newswires reported. However, some legislators feel in order to pass the climate bill Congress may 'have to preempt EPA authority.'

Citing a situation of a coal-based power plant achieving emissions-reductions targets by buying pollution credits from the market, she said EPA should have the authority to demand planned technology upgrades that would make it achieve low emission rates.